German DeMYSTified

I don't know whether this post should count as a product review or just an update, but I just completed the final exam in the German book I was using to refresh my knowledge of that language. German DeMYSTified was a great book for my purpose, with written exercises, quizzes, four unit exams, and a final exam that helped provide the structure necessary for me to rebuild my wasted-for-lack-of-use German vocabulary and reinstall and improve the grammatical knowledge I need to know in order to read, write, and speak in German.

That said, I found the book to be really helpful. I feel about 88% confident to use my German now. Funny enough, I scored about an 88% on the final exam. The hardest chapter for me was the chapter covering the passive voice. There's something about the structuring and syntax that makes it difficult for me to compose a passive sentence, however, I can certainly understand passive sentences when I read them. I guess that's okay...in English we often ignore the passive voice and consider it to be somewhat distasteful, so maybe I have a natural tendency away from writing in the passive.

Anyhow, on the final exam I scored 88%, and I can honestly say that the 12% I got incorrect were simple things that I should have known, but perhaps I was just moving too fast. I plan to review the chapter on the passive voice, and use other resources such as the interwebs to get this passive voice thing down pat.

This is what I've done at work since returning to Korea on February 2nd. Many many people complain about their days at their desk with no student, I figured it was a good time to reclaim something I had lost in my brain. Now, onward...I can begin the Easy French Reader and start learning French a bit more than the basic phrases I know through immersion reading.

Au revoir & auf wiedersehen!